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Front-end nuclear fuel supply cooperation: Turning allied interdependence into strategic advantage
The global nuclear revival, which is fueled by unprecedented demand for firm, affordable, dispatchable power for artificial intelligence and data center build-out, energy security imperatives, and climate commitments, has exposed a structural reality of the Western fuel cycle: No single allied nation currently possesses the full suite of front-end capabilities. From mining through conversion, enrichment, fabrication, and the emerging deconversion and metallization steps required for reactor fuels, capability is distributed across Canada, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States (collectively, the “Sapporo Five”), as well as a small group of close partners.
C. S. Caldwell, D. A. Spragg
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 62 | Number 2 | February 1977 | Pages 270-277
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A26962
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Cubic and bicubic piecewise polynomial splines are used to represent the boundaries between phases and the shapes of the phase surfaces in p(u, v), T(u, v), and v(p, h) diagrams. Good accuracy in the region of interest for pressurized water reactor applications is achieved at reasonable cost Furthermore, the continuity of the second derivatives of this method of interpolation results in smoother numerical behavior than does linear interpolation when implemented in computer programs solving differential equations.